unreel
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But the parade was such a spectacle that the “many imps of office boys who, from a hundred windows, began to unreel the spools of tape that record the fateful messages of the ‘ticker.’
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
Schmidlin had to unreel the print by hand to see whether he could identity anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2015
All of this was apparent in the first set's opening piece, Thelonious Monk's "Jackie-ing," its rhythmic twists and turns inspiring Green to unreel brilliantly sleek, fast-moving lines.
From Chicago Tribune ● May 20, 2011
At Sheffield, a film depicting the daily life of Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn commenced to unreel at the principal cinema theatre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody asked questions at once and a hundred pairs of hands tried to help unreel the hose and bring it to bear on the main blaze.
From The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow
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